Domenico Doria

Domenico Doria was a Genoese soldier. In 1498, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza hired him to train the Papal Army in hand-to-hand combat, and Sforza suggested him as a candidate for Captain-General of the Papal States. Pope Alexander VI considered Doria as a neutral option, as he was neither Virginio Orsini nor Fabrizio Colonna, but he ultimately appointed his own son, Cesare Borgia, as Captain-General.